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A51203	The declaration of His Excellencie James Marquis of Montrosse, Earle of Kilcairn, Lord Greme, Baron of Mont-Dieu, Lievtenant Governour of Scotland, and Captaine Generall of all His Majesties forces by sea or land, for that kingdome	Montrose, James Graham, Marquis of, 1612-1650.; Scotland. Parliament. aut	1650 (1650)	Wing M2516A; ESTC R202891	16,807	24

all such as shall joyne or concurre with him or his adherents in armes to be guilty of High Treason and to be punished and proceeded against as the Parliament or their Committees shall thinke fit And doe further discharge all persons of whatsoever quality or degree to joyne with them in any Oath Band or Association whatsoever or to assist or supply them and their adherents or any of them with Men Money Armes Ammunition Victuall Counsell or Intelligence or to keep any sort of correspondence publick or private with them or any wayes to ayd or countenance them or any of them under the paine of being esteemed as Rebels and proceeded against as the Parliament or their Committees shall thinke fit and this wee declare to be instead of all Letters of intercommoning And Power and Warr and is hereby given to all good Subjects within the Kingdome to rise in Armes for opposing and suppressing all such as shall joyne in Rebellion as they shall be called and required thereunto by the Lord Generall Lievtenant Generall or any others having authoritie for that effect And for the encouragement of al● such as shall suffer in opposing or suppressing them Wee doe further declare that not onely the losses and sufferings of such as shall be active in the cause against them shall be taken in speciall consideration and repaired out of the Estates of such as shall joyne in Rebellion as aforesaid but their service shall be rewarded according as they shall be found to deserve And wee doe ordaine these presents to be printed and published at the Mercat Crosse of Edinburgh and other ordinary places of publication needfull A. JONSTON Clericus Registri EDINBURGH 2. January 165● Antemeridiem The Declaration and Warning of the Commission of the Generall Assembly unto all the Members of this Kirk and Kingdome In answer to a paper intituled and reputed The Declaration of James Grahame ALbeit the carriage of those who are engaged in the worke of Reformation in this Land hath been from the beginning so agreeable to the rule of the Word of God and of sound reason and so eminently owned and blessed by the Lord in all the tenour and proc●dour thereof as may sufficiently refute all the calumnies of enemies and strengthen his people against all their slanders and attempts for undoing of the same Yet least our silence in this day of blasphemy and rebuke should be construed either as a neglect of our dutie or as weaknesse through the sense of the guilt to wipe off the aspersions that are vented to the world in the name of that excommunicate and forfeited Traytor James Grahame wee have resolved till there may be opportunitie for a larger Declaration shortly to touch the revilings contained in that paper and to declare unto men their dutie in reference to such purposes and desires as are holden forth therein In the first place the instruments of the worke of Reformation are charged as an horrid and infamous faction of rebells who did hatch a rebellion against his late Majestie But to say nothing that that wretched man was accessorie unto the laying of the foundation of that blessed worke which now in the blindnesse of his minde and hardnesse of his heart as being given up of God as Pharaoh was he calls rebellion This is no other then the common calumnie that hath been cast upon the servants of God from the beginning of the world in all their endeavours and attempts for Reformation of Religion Was it rebellion to stand to our defence when in stead of an answer to all the earnest and reiterated supplications and desires of this Land against the corruptions of doctrine worship discipline and government wee were invaded with an Army both by Sea and Land that a yoke might be wreathed about our necks by oppression and violence Not onely had wee the Lords Word and the practise of the reformed Churches abroad and of our owne Church at home in the dayes of our Fathers to justifie us in this but also the King himselfe who upon information did retract the Declaration set forth against u● and grant what we had desired N●xt it is charge upon this Nation that they did solicite a partie in the Kingdome of England to beginne where they had left off and that finding their rebell brood there beginning to lessen They did contrary to all Faith Covenants Oathes c. enter with a strong Army the Kingdome of England persecute their Prince in a forreigne Nation and assist a company of strangers rebells against their native King c. What was the grounds and first rise of the warre betwixt the King and the Parliament of England needs not now to be repeated being so well knowne every where But this Nat●on were so farre from fomenting of the same that for a long time they did mediate a peace and so continued untill England by their earnest invitation did for the preservation and Reformation of Religion the honour and happinesse of the King the peace and good of these Kingdome● crave their assistance against the Popish Prelaticall and Malignant partie then in Armes who were like to have destroyed all For which end when they had entred in a solemne League and Covenant with that Nation as they did oblige themselves for the defence and preservation of his Majesties Person and just Greatnesse and Authority in the defence and preservation of Religion so they did never desist to solici● his Majesty for satisfaction to the just desires of both Kingdomes and were alwayes upon his Majesties granting of the same willing to admit him to the exercise of his Royall Power Thirdly It is alleaged that after all manner of assurances given to his Majesty before his comming to the Scottish Armie notwithstanding of assurances he was sold unto the English But wee are confident that albeit all the generation of Malignants of the three Kingdomes have now for three yeares together filled this and the Nations abroad with the noyse of such things that yet to this day never any of them did nor could bring any evidence of such assurance given or such bargaine made by this Kingdome nay such assurances were alwayes refused and when the King did cast himselfe upon the Scottish Army this Kingdome was so farre from making any sale of him that they did not condescend to leave him wit● his Subj●ct in England untill sufficient surety was given by both Houses of Parliament concerning the safety and preservation of his Majesties Person It is ●reat malice to say that because the Scottish Army about the time of al● Majes●ies living at New-Castle did receive some part of those arrears due unto them for their painfull faithfull service in England that therefore this Kingdome did ●ell their King The arrears which were then received were due before the King came unto our Army and in all probability had been more timously and cheerfully payd if he had not come thither at all Fourthly They are slandered as complotters of

the Kings destruction by secre● intercourses both before in the time and since his Majesties horrid murther If those things be evident why were not the proofs brought forth and produced before the world for convincing the authors and abetters thereof and gaining credit to the cause of those that make so bold alleagance The publick endeavours and Testimonies of this Kirk and Kingdome against the taking of his Majesties life doe sufficiently refute all such secret and private whisperings Lastly they are charged as robbers of the King who now is of all right because of their declaring him King wîth provisoes But are these provisoes or conditions any other then such as have been in the time of his predecessors and whereunto by the Lawes and constitutions of this Kingdome he is obliged and without which Religion and the peace of the Kingdome cannot be secured These and the like slanders are made a ground of invitation unto the people of this Land to abandon the cause and worke of Reformation and to rise in Armes against the Parliament and Kingdome and joyne themselves with such Forces as that Monster of men and his complices shall make use of for invading of this land to which he labours to perswade a promise of pardon for what is past and of his Majesties resolution to be ever ready to ratifie so soon as it shall please God to put it in his power according to the advise of the supreme Judicatories of this Kingdome all what has been done by his Royall Father in order to our peace Though we should be silent and say nothing we are perswaded that there be none in the Land who has any regard to truth or righteousnesse or in whom any sponk of the love of the Lords work or of this Countrey does resid● but as they abhominate and abhor the very name of that excommunicate wretch and thinke these lies worthy of no other entertainment then is to be allowed to the devises of the Father o● lies unto whose hands he is delivered so we are confident that they will d●●est and avoid all such desperate and wicked designes attempted whither by him or by any other Shall men after so many solemn vowes and promises before the Lord and his hand lifted up so high in making plaine before them the way wherein they should walke be so blind and base as to be charmed into a most godlesse course against Religion and the blood of the Lords people by the offer of a pardon where there has been no transgression but a following of duty Or shall any be cheated into delusion by a flourish of most ambiguous words of his Majesties resolution to be ever ready to ratify so soone as it shall please God to put him in his power according to the advise of the supreame Judicatories of this Kingdome all what has beene done by his royall Father in order to our peace To say nothing that the League and Covenant and the Union betwixt the Kingdomes and the whole worke of Uniformity is here cut off at one clap though yet we trust that these things will be dearer to all the Lords people in the Land then their Estates or lives The words are so empty and doubtfull as may suffer any interpretation men list to put upon them and may consist with the utter undoing of all that has been done in this Land for asserting the purity of Religion and the liberty of the Subject His Majesty must first be put in power before he ingage himselfe to doe any thing at all and when in power no obligation upon him unlesse the supreame Judicatories of the Kingdome sha●l so advise neither is it determined what these judicatories are whither his Majesty shall be obliged to follow the advise and which is more strange Religion is not so much as named in all the concession but all is wrapped under the notion of these things which the King his royall Father granted in order to our peace which may be so expounded as to take in things Civill onely that concerne the peace of the Kingdome or at the best insinuates the motive of all that his Majesty granted concerning Religion to this Kingdome to have beene onely a desire of peace and not any thing in Religion it selfe and so drawes along with it a secret reflection upon the Nationall Covenant and all the work of God relating thereto and concludes them alterable as the change may produce peace or Warr We thinke we need not desire any man to consider what could be the case of Religion and of all that love is in this Land if it were in the power of that persidious and proud Atheist to modell the supreame Judicatories of the Kingdome according to his minde hee who hath so far forgotten his Covenant and Oath in which he enterd in so publick and solemn a way as to call all that is contained therein and has flowed there from violent and most unjust desires and the worke of Reformation from the beginning Rebellion will not spare the overturning and destroying thereof and the bringing back this poore Nation to the licking up of the vomit of prelacy the ceremonies and the Service-Book for making way to a fuller compliance with the Church of Rome which we have the more cause to feare for that the free excercise and full liberty of Popish Religion is granted by his Majesty to those bloody Rebells in Ireland To us it is above question that as the alteration of Religion and the establishing of an arbitrary and i● limited power for bringing the same about was the designe from the beginning so that the same is still promoted by the Popish Prelaticall and Malignant party and shall if they prevaile be the fruit of their works Therefore as the Servants of the living God we warne and obtest all the Lords people throughout the Land that as they would not draw on themselves the wrath of the most high God by breach of Covenant and grosse backslidings that they doe not hearken to any such calumni●s and slanders nor suffer themselves by the power thereof to be drawne from their stedfastnesse or to give any connivance let be countenance or assistance unto any who shall invade this Kingdome or raise Warre therin under pretence of Commission from his Majesty and putting him in the excercise of his Royall power before satisfaction had from him to the just and necessary desires of this Kirk and Kingdome concerning Religion and the Covenant The late Generall Assembly in their Declaration did by many grave and undenyable reasons demonstrate the unlawfullnesse and sinfullnesse of any such attempt and it shall be now seasonable for any man who doubts to make use of these things for satisfying his Judgement and convincing him in the poynt of conscience that he may not dash himselfe against the rock of the Lords power which shall certainly breake in peices all those that oppose themselves to his work and lead forth with the workers of iniquity all